TELL ME AFRICA

TELL ME AFRICA

Africa, Africa of Magnificence
Africa told behind stories
Stories of bitter and sweet
Immemorial Africa you are
Paramount, Africa you are.

It's in you that we're made
It's in you that we cherish
Pride of greatness chaste
Cries rise, cries sweeten
Like lions of jungle fields
We walk twisting our tails.

Tell me Africa, tell me Africa
Africa, the pride of ancestor
Africa walking in bone marrow
Africa circulating in blood veins
Africa controlling the heartbeats
Africa of unusual magnanimity.

Tell me Africa, tell me Africa
Bizarrely I sighted you in horizons
Twisting the binocular for clear sight
I saw cloud cover hiding you behind
Behind the gorgeous sight of delight
Bitterness invaded sweetness beside.

Tears falling down my watery cheeks
For I found that you're the public sight
Public serenity to hold pinches of nose
You're the deserted, abandoned orphan
You're told behind stories of barbaric.

Africa, the industry of splendid artefact
Africa, the own despising and ignorant
They say, you're not a civilized being
They say, they find comfort beyond
Africa, collect your chicks behold
Underneath your mightier wing.